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A Taste of Skizz #1; On Progress
Topic Started: Feb 10 2011, 06:19 PM (292 Views)
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If you talk to long-time New Yorkers, a surprising number will admit some nostalgia for the days when Times Square was a den of iniquity. I've never pressed any of them for their reasons, but if I did, I expect most of them would say the old Times Square had "character."

Last night, I went to Times Square (I'm in New York on business.) It is a soulless place. Bright lights have been part of the Times Square ambiance for a long time, but somewhere in the past decade, the lights became oppressive. Walking through the square was unpleasant, and I couldn't name any of the products or services promoted in the ads that assaulted me as I walked through the square.

To be sure, "cleaning up" Times Square has had undeniable benefits. It's nice to have clean streets; it's nice not to see homeless people masturbating in the subway; and although no one was forced to watch a peep show, it's nice that those icky things are gone.

Why, then, the nostalgia for the "old" Times Square? I blame a lack of vision. When Rudy Giuliani and his crew set out to clean up Times Square, they had no vision for the place -- they simply felt having one of the city's most visible landmarks beset with vice was unacceptable. They achieved some good, but because they had no vision, they turned one of the world's best-known landmarks into a collection of corporate billboards with no soul.

There's a lesson here for Europeia. It's fair to point out problems in the region, but a laundry list of problems unaccompanied by a vision of the future state is no basis for a presidential campaign. When I make my voting decision, I'll be looking at candidates' visions -- partly by reading platforms, but mostly by evaluating what they've actually done in their time here.

There are parts of Europeia that need cleaning up, but let's make sure we do that with a vision for the future, lest we lose the character that drew us here in the first place.






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Love it.
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A great read Skizzy.


Also A Taste of Skizz sounds so wrong :P
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Feb 10 2011, 01:31 PM
A great read Skizzy.


Also A Taste of Skizz sounds so wrong :P

Seconded. :P
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Feb 11 2011, 04:31 AM
A great read Skizzy.


Also A Taste of Skizz sounds so wrong :P

Do you think it's in poor taste?
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Heck No, but Euro has so many one tracked minds (myself included). :lol:
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I kind of guessed the first Taste of Skizz would be mild and aromatic, rather than harsh and salty. A very good message, I wish I'd lived up to it better. ^_^
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Wow, this is a great view of what New York City was like long before was I born. I do have one gripe though. It seems that, although the old Times Square had "character," that doesn't mean that the new Times Square with its landmarks and flashing signs and New Years' Eve celebrations is necessarily a bad thing, or that it has no soul. It does, just not one that people from before the cleanup would like.
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Where would we be without a daily taste of skizz? :lol:

I never saw Times Square before the "clean-up" but when I went a couple of summers ago with some of my English friends, I enjoyed it. I love the way you used your perception to teach us a lesson about what is more relevant to us. As you said, progress is great but without an end to which we can aspire to realize, the means become rather useless.
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Interesting. Never been there though I should add.

But I look forwards to the next dose of Skizz.
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I really liked this and it's quite true. You can keep walking forever but without a vision of what you want, you'll keep walking and miss the beauty of what you -have-.
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This was really good Skizzy. Do you think you can ever go back or is that lost forever?
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Feb 10 2011, 01:35 PM
Do you think it's in poor taste?


This brilliant pun isn't getting its proper due. Well played, sir.
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